[sane-devel] HP Scanners

2006-08-18 Thread Mark Longridge
This is when things started to go south: from HP site: "Hewlett-Packard Digital Imaging recently decided to eliminate the Software Developer Support Program managed by Sykes in Greeley, Colorado, effective August 1, 2001. The program managed external requests to Hewlett-Packard for both Window

[sane-devel] grey 4bit/pixel

2006-08-18 Thread Shashi Kumar M.S.
hi, iam searching a scanner that supports at about 300 dpi and 4 bit /pixel grey scanner. i found from the scanner that most of the scanner support 8/16 bit depth in grey mode. is there any way to modify this code to support 4 bit grey scale depth per pixel. all suggestions are welcome

[sane-devel] Xsane - and inability to complete scan

2006-08-18 Thread Victor Warner
Using latest version of xsane (0.991), compiled from source, under Linspire 5.0.347. Using a HPLJ3030 installed using HPLIP 1.67. When scanning, the scanner starts and completes scanning, and then xsane starts showing that it is "receiving gray data" the following error message is produced

[sane-devel] HP Scanners

2006-08-18 Thread Dean Loros
I have HPlip installed on my system--if only scanners were included in the supported devices. From what I see looking here, there seems to be a large number of scanners in the current offerings of HP's that only have partial function or none at all--hence I decided to tilt my lance at the windm

[sane-devel] Canon Lide 50/Plustek

2006-08-18 Thread Simon Troup
Hi my scanner is a Canon Lide 50, I'm on OSX 10.4. Sscanimage is returning this ... device `plustek:libusb:005:003-04a9-220e-ff-00' is a Canon N1240U/LiDE30 USB flatbed scanner I've managed to get the scanner to work but it doesn't grab the whole print area, I'm after A4 and it's returning sc

[sane-devel] Acard AEC6712S (atp870u.ko) and HP 6100C C2520A (sg.ko) problems

2006-08-18 Thread abel deuring
Justin Findlay wrote: > I have an HP 6100C scanjet (I wonder why they call it a scanjet) anyway > I have this scanner connected to an Acard SCSI PCI adapter. When I load > the driver module for the SCSI card (atp870u) this is what gets printed > out in /var/log/kernel: > > atp870u: use 32bit DMA

[sane-devel] About HP scanners

2006-08-18 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Aug 17 17:15 Dean Loros wrote (shortened): > I recently sent a E-mail to HP's president Mark Hurd talking about > the poor state of Linux support with HP products. Only for your information: At least for very most HP printers and all-in-one devices there is really good and active Linux

[sane-devel] About HP scanners

2006-08-18 Thread Dean Loros
Thank you Tyrone-- I have forwarded the sane-list to Robert--I also asked if he would wish his contact info to be distributed to the list--I am hopeful that there MIGHT be a answer to scanner drivers from HP--I believe that with enough level-headed reasoning dialog we can make a difference---I

[sane-devel] About HP scanners

2006-08-18 Thread JKD
El Thu, 17 de Aug de 2006, a las 07:22:42PM -0700, Tyrone Mills dijo: > I had decided to write a backend for the 4070, so this is great news. > Even if they (HP) would provide technical specs for the scanners, I'm > sure there are many other people on this list who would create/update > backends

[sane-devel] About HP scanners

2006-08-18 Thread Tyrone Mills
Well done Dean! Could you share the contact info you have, or perhaps an even better idea would be to refer Robert to this list to see all the different people who are struggling to make use of their HP Scanners. I for one have a 4070 that I am forced to keep a solitary windows machine around

[sane-devel] Acard AEC6712S (atp870u.ko) and HP 6100C C2520A (sg.ko) problems

2006-08-18 Thread Justin Findlay
I have an HP 6100C scanjet (I wonder why they call it a scanjet) anyway I have this scanner connected to an Acard SCSI PCI adapter. When I load the driver module for the SCSI card (atp870u) this is what gets printed out in /var/log/kernel: atp870u: use 32bit DMA mask. ACARD AEC-671X PCI Ultr

[sane-devel] About HP scanners

2006-08-18 Thread Justin Findlay
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:15:00PM -0700, Dean Loros wrote: > I would encourage everyone that is having trouble with a HP scanner to > open a dialog with HP--it does seem that the time is ripe to make some > changes!!! That is surely good news, however in my recent quest to acquire a scanner (HP

[sane-devel] About HP scanners

2006-08-18 Thread Dean Loros
I recently sent a E-mail to HP's president Mark Hurd talking about the poor state of Linux support with HP products. I did not expect an answer to my mail & was very surprised to get several e-mails & 3 phone calls in return. It seems that HP is getting sensitive in regards to Linux support & i